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Rebecca Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Family engagement has long been held as an important component of the educational experience for our students. This study is about how schools tend to aim towards the middle when looking to engage families in their child's school life, and future implications for how educators need to shift from the lens of the middle-class to reach our…
Descriptors: Parents, Public Schools, Family Involvement, Experience
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Mansaray, Ayo – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Research indicates that white middle-class families' engagement with urban schools in gentrifying localities is often characterised by strategies of dominance and control, which support claims of belonging and identity, as well as securing educational advantage for their children. This is referred as 'class colonisation' or 'school…
Descriptors: Whites, Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Family School Relationship